“There are many sissies who do not understand what needs to be done to protect the United States.

I will not go into details, I wrote about Venezuela in my memoirs ... I think that any president who is not ready to do what is necessary to protect the interests of the American people should find an adviser, ”TASS quotes him,

Thus, he commented on his previous statement on CNN that he took part in the preparation of coup d'état.

Later, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on Bolton's words.